Cragger

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mountaineer. informal

    "An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent."

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"An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent."

Etymology

From crag + -er.

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